The right to adequate housing in disaster relief efforts 2011, para. 49
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Beyond the more obvious protection aspects discussed above, it is important to address reconstruction from a broader view of adequate housing - including seeing housing as a social asset - and with the aim to progressively realize the right. Ensuring recovery and durable solutions, seen in this light, means rebuilding communities and neighbourhoods and ensuring an adequate standard of living, of which housing unit construction is only one part, sometimes not the most important or urgent. Disasters do not take place in a vacuum: it is important to assess and address the wider housing context in which disasters take place.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2011
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Housing, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/270, para. 49.